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  • O blissful poverty!
    Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns
    Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace,
    Her real goods; and only mocks the great,
    With empty pageantries!

    Edmund Smith, Mr. John Dryden, Mr. Elijah Fenton, Richard Steele (1750). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. VI.”, p.61